How to reboot from start scripts?
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Sep 12 18:06:02 UTC 2007
James Takac wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:48:13 Josef Wolf wrote:
...
>> For example, when fsck for some filesystems fails at startup, you
>> are thrown into a shell to fix the problem. From that shell, you
>> have no chance to make a proper reboot. I have tried:
>>
>> - shutdown -r now
>> - init 6
>> - reboot
>> - halt
...
>
> Not sure if it makes any difference in this instance but I now the reboot
> needs admin privilages so you usually see sudo reboot rather than reboot
> on its own
He's in the "root" shell (ie, single user mode), so he doesn't have to sudo
anything.
I'm reasonably certain this used to work with the sysv-init, so I suspect
this is an unintended result of the conversion to upstart. Which, I'm
afraid, doesn't actually get you any closer to a solution...
--
derek
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